UPDATE on Cisco's iPhone Trademark … Today's announcement from Cisco regarding our suit with Apple over our iPhone trademark has spurred a lot of interesting questions. Most importantly, this is not a suit against Apple's innovation, their modern design, or their cool phone.

Cisco sues Apple over use of iPhone trademark — update Cisco Systems has filed a lawsuit against Apple accusing the company of infringing its iPhone trademark, the networking company said Wednesday. — The suit also accuses the iPod maker used a front company to try to acquire rights to the name.

@ CES: PodTech's Bloghaus: To See It Is To Believe It — As I write, I'm at one end of a vast conference table strewn with cables, laptops in every size and make, and enough cameras to set up an eBay shop. In the room beyond the open glass doors, people are sitting on couches, on beanbags and on the floor, laptops lit.

And now I can get some sleep — The experiment in sleep deprivation that the rest of you know as CES is almost over (the BlogHaus closes in 45 minutes and we start cleaning up and heading for home). I'm struggling to get some videos up, we did two more Retrevo gangs that I might not be able …

Netflix is dead — Ahh, I was right. The coolest stuff at CES is over at the Sands. Too bad Dave Winer left before he could get over there. And I'm not talking about the adult entertainment convention that's going on there right now either. — As an example over there I dropped in on Verisign's booth.

Scoble: Netflix is Dead — I consider Robert Scoble a good friend, but he is way off when he writes Netflix is Dead. He probably didn't know that Netflix is expected to unveil a digital download strategy this month, so I think he should wait to hear what they have planned before he writes them off.

Planned features for Firefox 3 — In today's Firefox 3 (code name Gran Paradiso) meeting, developers released a preliminary list of requirements for Firefox 3. The new target release date is sometime in the third quarter this year. — Among the list of mandatory requirements, read …

eBay buys StubHub, online ticket reseller, for $310M — StubHub, an online site for reselling tickets to events, has been acquied by eBay for $310 million, minting the latest Silicon Valley millionaires in co-founders Jeff Fluhr and Eric Baker. — The controversial company has grown steadily, badgering eBay's business for years.

New PayPal key to help thwart phishers — Additional password-generating security measure should be opened to beta users within the next month — Over the next few months, Ebay will be offering its PayPal users a new tool in the fight against phishers: a $5 security key.

YouTube Overtakes MySpace on Alexa — MySpace has finally fallen to the video giant that is YouTube. After Google's acquisition of the site, traffic steadily increased. YouTube has now overtaken MySpace on Alexa's rankings and surpassed it in reach as well!

Canadian coins bugged, U.S. security agency says — They say money talks, and a new report suggests Canadian currency is indeed chatting, at least electronically, on behalf of shadowy spies. — Canadian coins containing tiny transmitters have mysteriously turned up in the pockets …

GravityZoo: It's a WebOS Jim, But Not As We Know It — Written by Emre Sokullu and edited by Richard MacManus — Over the past few weeks, we have examined possible GoogleOS scenarios and covered top WebOS offerings. GravityZoo is a very early stage WebOS, with a whole different - and noteworthy - approach.

'Craplets' could damage Vista launch: Microsoft exec — A senior Microsoft Corp. executive says the company is concerned that uncertified third-party software loaded onto new computers by manufacturers could hurt the launch of consumer versions of its Windows Vista operating system later this month.